At a time when bitcoins are in focus for all the wrong reasons, cryptocurrency dealer Pluto Exchange on Thursday announced the launch of India’s first mobile application for transacting in the virtual currency.

Last year, Richard Laermer decided to let his em ployees work from home. “I always assumed that you can get your work done anywhere,“ Laermer, who owns a US-based PR firm.Turns out, he was wrong. Employees took advantage, Laermer said. The last straw, he said, was when someone refused to come in for a meeting because she had plans.

Flying in and out of Delhi may soon get cheaper with incoming passengers no longer required to pay any user development fee (UDF). Even the UDF for outbound flyers—which went up to Rs 1,131 (without taxes) per passenger—is now slashed to Rs 10 and Rs 45 for domestic and international flyers, respectively.

The Union ministry of consumer affairs on Thursday decided to ban the 'dual’ MRP policy, a practice through which sellers charge a higher MRP for their products in certain spaces like malls, airports, and hotels.

The state government’s request to denotify and declare some stretches of national highways (NHs) passing through cities as district or municipal roads will not materialise in the immediate future as the Centre is yet to a take a decision on the issue.

Home buyers can heave a sigh of relief, the long-awaited Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act (RERA) will be implemented from May 1. The catch — only 12, out of a total of 32 states and Union territories, have notified rules.

The State Bank of India has merged its five Associate Banks - State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur, State Bank of Hyderabad, State Bank of Mysore, State Bank of Patiala, State Bank of Travancore besides Bharatiya Mahila Bank - with itself with effect from April 1.